Some physical properties of long chain hydrocarbons

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. T. Chu ◽  
Carmen Sindilariu ◽  
Aaron Freilich ◽  
Vojtech Fried

The densities, refractive indices, and viscosities of liquid n-nonadecane and n-nonadecyl benzene were investigated at temperatures not too far above their respective melting points. Except for the viscosities, no significant differences were observed in the behavior of the two hydrocarbons. The n-nonadecane + n-nonadecyl benzene system exhibits small positive excess volumes and small negative excess viscosities. The excess refractive index is zero in the entire concentration range.

Author(s):  
Walter C. McCrone

An excellent chapter on this subject by V.D. Fréchette appeared in a book edited by L.L. Hench and R.W. Gould in 1971 (1). That chapter with the references cited there provides a very complete coverage of the subject. I will add a more complete coverage of an important polarized light microscope (PLM) technique developed more recently (2). Dispersion staining is based on refractive index and its variation with wavelength (dispersion of index). A particle of, say almandite, a garnet, has refractive indices of nF = 1.789 nm, nD = 1.780 nm and nC = 1.775 nm. A Cargille refractive index liquid having nD = 1.780 nm will have nF = 1.810 and nC = 1.768 nm. Almandite grains will disappear in that liquid when observed with a beam of 589 nm light (D-line), but it will have a lower refractive index than that liquid with 486 nm light (F-line), and a higher index than that liquid with 656 nm light (C-line).


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 2064-2078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blahoslav Sedláček ◽  
Břetislav Verner ◽  
Miroslav Bárta ◽  
Karel Zimmermann

Basic scattering functions were used in a novel calculation of the turbidity ratios for particles having the relative refractive index m = 1.001, 1.005 (0.005) 1.315 and the size α = 0.05 (0.05) 6.00 (0.10) 15.00 (0.50) 70.00 (1.00) 100, where α = πL/λ, L is the diameter of the spherical particle, λ = Λ/μ1 is the wavelength of light in a medium with the refractive index μ1 and Λ is the wavelength of light in vacuo. The data are tabulated for the wavelength λ = 546.1/μw = 409.357 nm, where μw is the refractive index of water. A procedure has been suggested how to extend the applicability of Tables to various refractive indices of the medium and to various turbidity ratios τa/τb obtained with the individual pairs of wavelengths λa and λb. The selection of these pairs is bound to the sequence condition λa = λ0χa and λb = λ0χb, in which b-a = δ = 1, 2, 3; a = -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ..., b = a + δ = -1, 0, 1, 2, ...; λ0 = λa=0 = 326.675 nm; χ = 546.1 : 435.8 = 1.2531 is the quotient of the given sequence.


1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 2839-2843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Linek

Excess molar volumes in the benzene-tert-amyl methyl ether and cyclohexane-tert-amyl methyl ether systems were measured by a vibrating-tube densimeter at 298.15 K and compared with the data for the methanol-tert-amyl methyl ether system determined previously. Besides, the refractive indices in both the systems were measured at the same temperature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Weeratouch Pongruengkiat ◽  
Thitika Jungpanich ◽  
Kodchakorn Ittipornnuson ◽  
Suejit Pechprasarn ◽  
Naphat Albutt

Refractive index and Abbe number are major physical properties of optical materials including glasses and transparent polymers. Refractive index is, in fact, not a constant number and is varied as a function of optical wavelength. The full refractive index spectrum can be obtained using a spectrometer. However, for optical component designers, three refractive indices at the wavelengths of 486.1 nm, 589.3 nm and 656.3 nm are usually sufficient for most of the design tasks, since the rest of the spectrum can be predicted by mathematical models and interpolation. In this paper, we propose a simple optical instrumental setup that determines the refractive indices at three wavelengths and the Abbe number of solid and liquid materials.


2000 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángel Piñeiro ◽  
Pilar Brocos ◽  
Alfredo Amigo ◽  
Mercedes Pintos ◽  
Ramón Bravo

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Estrada-Wiese ◽  
J.A. Del Río

There are two main physical properties needed to fabricate 1D photonic structures and form perfect photonic bandgaps: the quality of thethickness periodicity and the refractive index of their components. Porous silicon (PS) is a nano-structured material widely used to prepare 1Dphotonic crystals due to the ease of tuning its porosity and its refractive index by changing the fabrication conditions. Since the morphologyof PS changes with porosity, the determination of PS’s refractive index is no easy task. To find the optical properties of PS we can usedifferent effective medium approximations (EMA). In this work we propose a method to evaluate the performance of the refractive index ofPS layers to build photonic Bragg reflectors. Through a quality factor we measure the agreement between theory and experiment and thereinpropose a simple procedure to determine the usability of the refractive indices. We test the obtained refractive indices in more complicatedstructures, such as a broadband Vis-NIR mirror, and by means of a Merit function we find a good agreement between theory and experiment.With this study we have proposed quantitative parameters to evaluate the refractive index for PS Bragg reflectors. This procedure could havean impact on the design and fabrication of 1D photonic structures for different applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-171

This study aimed to investigate the use of water hyacinth to produce liquid smoke. The study observes the temperature and time variables of yield, pH, density, and refractive index in the production of liquid smoke from water hyacinth. The sequence of the work is as follows: first, water hyacinth was cut into 5 cm sections and then sun-dried for 2–3 d, depending on the weather. Next, 550 g of dried water hyacinth was added to the pyrolysis reactor. The temperature variations were 200°C, 400°C, and 600°C, and the time variations were 1, 4, and 7 h. As a result, liquid smoke was produced with varying yield, pH, densities, and refractive indices. The best results in this research are liquid smoke pyrolysis at a temperature of 400°C and 4 h with the acquisition of a yield of 93 mL, pH 2–4, a density of 1.080,8 gr/mL, and a refractive index of 1.339,6, with chemical component 41.45% total acid, 2.44% phenol and 56.10% carbonyl.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Isnaeni Isnaeni ◽  
Reynaldi Gilang Mulyawan ◽  
Ahmad Reza Hakimi

Time correlated single photon counter was design for measuring fluorescence lifetime of emitting materials. It was designed for photonics basic research and science that is usually done in a laboratory. Furthermore, time correlated single photon counter can be used to measure simple and more practical optical properties of materials, such as refractive index. However, since the system was not designed for this practical application, a simple setup modification and calculation is required. In this work, time correlated single photon counter is utilized to measure the refractive index of sodium chloride solutions. The measurement was done using simple time of flight calculation of each pulse of picosecond pulsed laser. Our measurement was done on different concentrations of sodium chloride that have different refractive indices. It was found that the measurement technique and calculation was able to produce consistent quantitative calculation of refractive indices.  


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